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Defender/midfielder playing under scholarship at Florida International University - was scouted in Wales/Ireland with secondary school team in November last year. He got an offer from 2 university scouts at the games. Florida seemed attractive. He has been named in the Akron Tournament Team(tournament held preseason between highly ranked university teams), in his own conference 3rd team and in his conference "freshman" team. This is extremely prestigious considering his own Florida uni team did not do that well in the competition, yet he was standout to be named in these teams. Has now been the first freshman ever to be offered the captaincy. The level of football is NZFC. 2 games per week, training daily.

I think Anthony Hobbs could go all the way for NZ
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And I hope you do  Anthony best of luck!
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Because I'm an anorak I started having a dig around because I've never heard of Anthony Hobbs and I fancy myself as a massive know-it-all (as forum regulars will attest).
 
Anyway.  Sounds like Master Hobbs is a decent player.  He's a 6 foot defender at a fairly average NAIA College in quite a nice part (I'm told) of America.
 
What's been annoying though is that I think he was in the 2007 U17s that played in South Korea.  You wouldn't know though - because NZF's website doesn't carry any info on past squads. 
 
Jeremy Ruane's ugly but valuable Ultimate NZ Soccer site has info on results but not a squad list.  The best bit being this photo of the 1999 U17s feat. Lochhead, Mully et al: http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/NZRepSoccer/id160.htm
 
 
Hobbs was in the same 17s as 1 Barba 2 Barba 3 Barbarouses, Chris Wood, and a whole sh*tload of kids now playing at College (O'Keefe, Corliss, Hunt, and I think Cowen and Myers).  He was one of the youngsters in the squad (1991 instead of 1990) but still played 2 of the 3 games, including a good portion of the 7-0 thrashing by Brasil.
 
 
Anyway.  There's a bit more about him.  Good luck to the lad.
 
When you think about how badly that team performed at the 17s - (5-0 loss to England and 7-0 loss to Brasil) and then how far many of those players have gone since it gives you heart to think about the most recent U17s performance and where some of those players might be in two years.
 
 
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That's part of the point. The college competitions in the US are far stronger than our stupid premier leagues. Anyone that wants to further carrer in soccer has to go overseas to where ever. There are some very good players overseas that have been totally ignored - perhaps a couple that are superior than a couple of our current All Whites.
The under 17s  in Korea were not good, however there are enough really good players for the next U20s if chosen and coached correctly. 
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Anthony Hobbs is the son of Keith Hobbs who had a long national league carreer as captain of North Shore in the eighties. Also represented All Whites with 8 full caps from 1980 -85. So the pedigree is there.
Anthony represented United Soccer  1 throughout all all of the grades, also toured the UK with the NZ Secondary schools team in 2009
Played regularly with the Glenfield Rovers first team from the age of 16
Well known for his Rory Dellap type throw ins. 
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Hmmm. I looked for that for about half an hour.

Maybe you should link from the results to the squads?

Not faulting your effort by the way, just your execution.

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Scousekiwi wrote:
As for the absence of a squad list, BZZZ! Wrong answer! The link below will reveal every NZ squad to have played at a FIFA Finals tournament:
 
If such a page couldn't be found easily, perhaps it's not THAT functional
 
Still a bloody good site though
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Thanks Robb.
 
And Smithy, I've actioned your suggestion - the relevant pages are now linked.
 
 
Cheers,
 
JR
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SPORTSFAN wrote:
Anyone that wants to further carrer in soccer has to go overseas to where ever.
Too right, yesterday a PE teacher at my school told me about when Chris Killen came to him when he was working at Rongotai asking whether or not he should drop out before 7th form and pursue a career in the UK, the teacher convinced him to go for it and told him that if he was going to make a living out of fooball it wouldn't be in New Zealand. Killey wasn't 100% sure but did it anyway, and just like Nelsen, Elliot, Rufer etc he was one of the ones fortunate enough to succeed. Oska2009-12-09 17:40:56
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http://www.fiusports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=49050&SPID=4758&DB_OEM_ID=11700&ATCLID=204798131

http://www.fiusports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11700&ATCLID=204832182

Update on Anthony's achievements

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he had the mvp award this year with the florida international university and will be an important player for nZ if they qualify to u20 wc next year:
 
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Does anybody know if anthony hobbs or john niyonsaba have any chance of being drafted by an MLS team next year?
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Anthony has only completed one year, made the freshman team for his conference and the 3rd conference team. Hard to do when the team does not do well. Has now been made captain (1st time ever for a freshman) 1st outing as captain played MLS team in their preseason, won 1-0. Hopefully he will get drafted perhaps next year however most have to wait till finishing college before getting a draft. Depends on how well FIU gets on this year. That is his aim.
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Guys this thread is now nominated as the thread for Kiwis at US colleges as per the feedback received on reorganising this forum.
 
Cheers JD
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In addition of James Mcpeake there is another kiwi player who signed with Fairleigh Dickinson University which is jordan cooper:
 
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There is also Colin murphy who is at boston college and could be a good option if Nz qualifies to next year u20 WC in Colombia:
 
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man, no offence, but do u do anything other than search for kiwis overseas?
i love ur work and is interesting, but the amount of people u find is crazy lol
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Actually,with the experience, I know exactly how I can find info through google and it doesn t take that much time because there are just few kiwi players overseas :)

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Hows Micahel Boxall going at the moment?? Thought he looked a very good prospect for NZ in the future.
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Pretty good by the looks of it.  He's played a full minutes in 3 of the past 4 games. Santa Barbara are 2nd in the big west.
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3 South Islanders playing for St Francis (PA) in the North East conference. Patrick Fleming, Seamus Ryder and James Price. Fleming leading goalscorer so far this season.

Tom Jackson at Marshall University (C-USA) doing well by the looks of things. 3 Goals and 5 assists so far this season.
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Dan Keat and Michael Boxall have been invited to the MLS combine in Fort Lauderdale on Jan. 8-11, where MLS coaches and scouts will evaluate talent ahead of the MLS Super Draft in Baltimore on Jan. 13. Maybe Gavin Wilkinson would be interested to draft one of them for the Portland Timbers:
 
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Just found this on mlssoccer.com hopefully Keat and Boxall will land somewhere decent in the draft... the more kiwi's we have playing professionally the better!

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/new-zealander-keat-aspiring-mls-success
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New England Revs are rumored to be interested in drafting keat
 
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According to an US college soccer specialist Michael Boxall should be chosen by an MLS team in the first round 10th and Dan Keat in the second round 27th overall:
 
 
Also Boxall and Keat will be playing on the same team at the combine and keat is considered as a top senior prospect(23 years old):
 
 
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Prediction: Boxall (Kansas City), Keat (Chicago)
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Keat and Boxall on the top 30 MLS superdraft. This year there is going to be only 3 rounds with 16 teams on each round. So with 48 selections I would be really surprised if one of the kiwis is not selected...
 
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MLS Player Combine matches will be streamed online, Keat and Boxall will be playing as part of the AdiPower team.

http://www.whitecapsfc.com/news/2011/01/watch-mls-player-combine-matches-live

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